β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.
β
A group of owls is called a parliament.β
Pigeons can recognize themselves in a mirror.β
There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.β
There is a village in Norway called 'Hell' that freezes over every winter.β
The longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years.β
The world's oldest known recipe is for beer.β
Cows have best friends and get stressed when separated.β
It takes about eight minutes for sunlight to reach Earth.β
An octopus has nine brains.β
So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.β
Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.β
A group of jellyfish is called a smack.β
Elephants are the only mammals that can't jump.β
Starfish can regenerate their lost limbs.β
Cleopatra lived closer in time to the Moon landing than to the building of the Great Pyramid.β
Your tongue print is as unique as your fingerprint.β
The Hawaiian alphabet has only 13 letters.β
A hummingbird's heart can beat up to 1,260 times per minute.β
The 'new car smell' is made of dozens of chemicals off-gassing from the interior.β
Octopuses can taste with their arms.β
Rats laugh when tickled.β
A day on Venus is longer than a year on Venus.β
Voice actors for Mickey and Minnie Mouse got married in real life.β
The human brain uses about 20% of the body's total energy.β
If you lift a kangaroo's tail off the ground it can't hop.β
Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.β
A group of frogs is called an army.β
Your stomach gets a new lining every 3 to 4 days, otherwise it would digest itself.β
A newborn panda is smaller than a mouse.β
A snail can sleep for three years straight.β
Chewing gum while you chop onions helps keep you from crying.β
A group of flamingos is called a 'flamboyance'.β
The first item ever sold on eBay was a broken laser pointer.β
The first oranges weren't orange, they were green.β
Pineapples take about two years to grow.β
The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress signal.β
Sea cucumbers breathe through their butts.β
The French language has 13 different words for 'kiss'.β
Cashews grow on the outside of a fruit, not inside a shell.β
Google processes more than 8.5 billion searches every single day.β
A mosquito has 47 teeth.β
Cats can't taste sweetness.β
Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting during his lifetime.β
Antarctica is the only continent without native reptiles or snakes.β
A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.β
Sloths only poop about once a week.β
Goldfish can recognize human faces.β
A 'moment' was medieval unit of time equal to 90 seconds.β
Pigs can't look up at the sky without rolling over.β
Ancient Egyptians slept on stone pillows.β
Most 'silver' spoons are actually made of stainless steel.β
The average person spends six months of their life waiting for red lights to turn green.β
7% of American adults believe that chocolate milk comes from brown cows.β
A shrimp's heart is located in its head.β
Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.β
Humans are the only animals that blush.β
Polar bears have black skin under their white fur.β
A bolt of lightning is five times hotter than the surface of the sun.β
The Mona Lisa has no eyebrows or eyelashes.β
Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.β
Cotton candy was co-invented by a dentist.β
There are more possible iterations of a game of chess than atoms in the observable universe.β
Hippos can't actually swim, they walk along the riverbed.β
The oldest 'your mom' joke was discovered on a 3,500 year old Babylonian tablet.β
The Eiffel Tower can grow up to 6 inches taller during summer.β
Banging your head against a wall for one hour burns 150 calories.β
Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.β
A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.β
A day on Mercury lasts 59 Earth days.β
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.β
In Switzerland it is illegal to own just one guinea pig.β
Ketchup was once sold as medicine in the 1830s.β
Butterflies taste with their feet.β
The shortest commercial flight in the world lasts just 57 seconds.β
A group of ferrets is called a business.β
Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.β
The Great Wall of China is not visible from space with the naked eye.β
Saturn would float if you could find an ocean big enough.β
Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.β
A lion's roar can be heard from up to 5 miles away.β
It is physically impossible to hum while holding your nose.β
A crocodile can't stick its tongue out.β
There are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on every beach on Earth.β
The moon has moonquakes.β
Ostriches can run faster than horses.β
There's a species of jellyfish that is immortal.β
Crows can recognize human faces and hold grudges for years.β
Scotland's national animal is the unicorn.β
A snail can have up to 25,000 teeth on its tongue.β
Horses physically cannot vomit.β
Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.β
A group of crows mobbing a predator is literally called a 'murder patrol'.β
Snakes can help predict earthquakes.β
Dolphins sleep with one eye open.β
Hot water freezes faster than cold water. This is called the Mpemba effect.β
A jiffy is an actual unit of time: 1/100th of a second.β
A cloud can weigh more than a million pounds.β
The longest recorded flight of a chicken lasted 13 seconds.β
Sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can.β
A newborn kangaroo is about the size of a jellybean.β
The fear of long words is ironically called hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.β
Bananas are berries, but strawberries are not.β
A blue whale's heart is roughly the size of a small car.β
The Dutch were once the tallest people in the world.β
The shortest war in history lasted 38 to 45 minutes between Britain and Zanzibar.β
A hippo's sweat is pink.β
Cherophobia is an irrational fear of fun or happiness.β
Koalas have fingerprints nearly identical to humans.β
Dolphins have names for each other.β
Avocados are toxic to most animals except humans.β
Nintendo was founded in 1889 as a playing card company.β
Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.β
Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper.β
The microwave oven was invented by accident when a researcher noticed a chocolate bar melted in his pocket.β
The inventor of the Pringles can is buried in one.β
29th May is officially Put a Pillow on Your Fridge Day.β
There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.β
The first computer mouse was made of wood.β
Cows have regional accents, they moo differently in different areas.β
The smell of rain has a name: petrichor.β
A group of porcupines is called a prickle.β
The dot over the letter 'i' is called a tittle.β
Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.β
The Statue of Liberty was originally intended to be a lighthouse.β
You can hear a blue whale's heartbeat from more than two miles away.β
Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers.β
Bananas are curved because they grow towards the sun.β
A flock of crows is known as a murder.β
Wombat poop is cube-shaped.β
We have mapped more of Mars than of our own ocean floor.β
Bees can recognize individual human faces.β
More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.β
The average person walks the equivalent of three times around the world in a lifetime.β
A rhinoceros' horn is made of keratin, the same stuff as hair.β
A group of pandas is called an embarrassment.β
A blue whale's tongue can weigh as much as an elephant.